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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Nina Arianda, a Rising Star in ‘Born Yesterday’ - NYTimes.com

I just happened on this Story today and have never seen or heard of this girl before. I watched the Video clip and she is great!:) It seems that the old timey characters, that I grew up watching in the old 30's, 40's and 50's Movies are back in style again. I get a kick out of it! It's kind of neat:)

Don

A Storybook Ascent for One Actress

Michael Appleton for The New York Times

The actress Nina Arianda poses along the East River waterfront on Thursday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she lives.

Published: May 27, 2011

Meeting Nina Arianda in person for the first time is very different from meeting her onstage. Instead of the high-pitched "WHA-A-A-A-T?" with which she announces her entrance as Billie Dawn, the classic dumb blonde she plays in the revival of "Born Yesterday" at the Cort Theater, Ms. Arianda offers a low-key, low-throated pleased-to-meet-you. Her honking version of hello — which Charles Isherwood described in The New York Times as a cross between Jean Harlow and Cyndi Lauper — has helped to turn Ms. Arianda, 26, into Broadway's newest darling and won her a Tony nomination for best actress.

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

Michael Appleton for The New York Times

Richard Termine for The New York Times

A scene from "Venus in Fur."

But it is also giving her vocal cords a workout. She is finally off steroids (thank goodness), but the overuse of her voice is taking a toll, especially on matinee days, when there are two performances.
"In the morning I steam. Then there's the warming up before the show. And I do stretches at night," she recounted after ordering a cup of hot tea on a recent sunny afternoon near her apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. "It's an Olympic sport."
Her Broadway debut comes just about a year after an even more demanding vocal role Off Broadway as Vanda, an aspiring, domineering actress in "Venus in Fur," which earned this theatrical newcomer nodes on her vocal cords. (Vanda did her yelling in a lower register.) Her astonishing performance in "Venus," written by David Ives, captured the industry's attention.
"It's that moment, you know it when it happens, when the next Meryl Streep walks through the door," said Walter Bobbie, who directed the play. "Nina's performance started a brush fire. The word was you have to see this girl."
He added: "Right out of N.Y.U. she got this job, and five minutes later she booked four films and she's now starring on Broadway. That's not luck."
Woody Allen cast her in his new film, "Midnight in Paris," though she skipped the screening at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. With pre-Tony Award publicity to manage and the danger of being infected by a stray germ on a long international flight, Ms. Arianda decided to stay put. As she said: "This month is nutso."
Despite the long blond hair and pouty lips, Ms. Arianda does not have classic glamour-girl looks. She can stretch her rubbery features into contorted expressions of manic excitement and disgust. Her rounded face has the uncanny ability to look simultaneously young and old. And at 5 feet 8 inches, with broad, square shoulders and large hands and feet on a thin frame, Ms. Arianda can instantly dominate a stage.
She received an M.F.A. from New York University two years ago, but Ms. Arianda has been hooked on the theater ever since attending an acting class at the age of 4.
Go there... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/theater/nina-arianda-a-rising-star-in-born-yesterday.html?_r=1&ref=arts

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Hi I'm Don,
I write, sing and record songs of my own and I like doing this very much. My music is on my web site. My first album is called DonSongs and my second one is called Living Beings - Climate Control. You can Download and listen and save all our songs on my web site at DonSongs.com and it's completely free. My favorite hobby now is computers. I like to fix old Computers and make them usable again with different Linux Operating Systems or just fix up messed up WindBlows systems;). I really like researching interesting things on the Internet. I read allot about many things, Technical things on computers and the Internet, interesting discoveries in science, new technology, local and world news and just what ever strikes me as interesting. I am very handy and good with tools, fixing and making things. I like to help my friends with their projects when I can. I love Hot Rods and use to do Motor Swaps and put Big Block Chevy Motors where 6 cylinders once were. I love 4 Wheeling and Dirt Bike Riding But I don't have a motorcycle any more. I still really like 4 Wheeling in my 1976 Chevy Blazer, when I can afford the Gas and cost of Broken Parts that is...!!!:O
Don